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Player Name: Leah E-mail: malea.botor [at] gmail [dot] com Preferred Contact: MaleaBotor on plurk or DM me! Timezone: EST Current Characters in Victory Road: n/a
Character Name: John Egbert Series: Homestuck (+ Epilogues) Timeline: The very end of his presence in the Meat Epilogue. Canon Resource Links:There is so much in the wiki, this should be more than enough! LMK if it’s like. Confusing because it’s a fanwiki and people who already understand canon wrote it. Personality: John is the sort of guy that things happen at rather than one who necessarily has any control over a situation. On the surface, he seems to be the token everyman character. People call him the leader. He loves his friends a bunch. He’s friendly and dorky and a bit clueless. And without a strong purpose or a central conflict or something very specific he’s been told to do, he feels clueless and empty. Throughout the main plot of Homestuck, John just keeps going. He has to beat the game, so he tries his best to level up, following any instructions he’s given by people he identifies as probably more intelligent than he is, which leads to his death on multiple occasions. Without fail, he prioritises helping his friends and progressing in the game over himself. And while this does wear on him, while his own deaths and the death of his father and his friends build up inside him, he keeps them inside. It isn’t even strictly a case of surface-level repression. John pushes down all of the tragedy he experiences to a point where he doesn’t even actually realise he isn’t ok. When it comes out, it tends to come out as anger directed at something frivolous like finding out a favourite candy of his is made by a company he dislikes, or an unkind prank played on him by a friend. John doesn’t let himself feel sad at first because he doesn’t have the time, he keeps being interrupted by circumstance or whatever purpose he sees as more important than himself. But by the time his session fails and he comes across the battle he missed (because he was venting his emotions being mad at a sexist tool in a dumb cape) he’s pretty much numb. He watches one of the only living people left in his session sob as she buries one of his longtime best friends and just looks faintly sad. Rose expects him to throw a fit when he finds out the Big Bad is the head of his least favourite company and he just. Doesn’t. He can’t let himself feel any of his real big emotions anymore. They don’t help the game.
As far as his strong purpose or path, he doesn’t allow himself to stop. In the failed session, Roxy expresses wanting to just sit down, accept they failed, and wait to fade away, and he can’t accept that. He wants to do something. Terezi showing up and giving him a last minute purpose before she dies is probably a big reason for why he ends up with a crush on her. Without a big purpose or a path, he stagnates. After the end of Homestuck, during the Credits, you see John winding down. He’s invested in building up Earth C at first, when that’s still a task that needs to be accomplished, but year by year you watch him draw back from his friends, and isolate himself. By the time the Epilogues start, it’s been ages since he’s properly talked to or seen most of them. He has no purpose, but he still has his block up, preventing him from actually engaging. He doesn’t know how to exist like a normal person, or let his feelings loose now that he has the time. The version of John I’d be bringing in never even tries to change. He stays in his depression funk in his house and then almost immediately follows the first list of instructions he’s given, just to have a meaningful purpose again.
When he has a purpose, John is fiercely loyal to his friends, motivated and caring. He doesn’t always think his words through, and can say some accidentally pretty hurtful or blunt things, but he means well. When he takes the time to think, he’s really thoughtful and sometimes more perceptive about people than anyone gives him credit. He knows that Rose cares a lot about her friends, for instance, despite the thick layer of sarcasm and bullshit she communicates through. Once he’s had time to meet Karkat, he doesn’t take his rudeness seriously either, because he knows he’s a good guy. He definitely seeks out people who can challenge him, for friendships. He wants people who can be an asshole right back, or engage in playful jibes. When he doesn’t like a person, though, because they’re irredeemably mean or an asshole, he gives it right back, and is purposefully shitty to them (instead of accidentally). Overall, though, when mentally well, he’s almost overwhelmingly friendly to people, practically bludgeoning them in the face with it. The fact that he apparently hasn’t spoken to many of his friends for months in the Epilogue is pretty much the biggest indicator that he’s not OK.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Swablu Password: Atomic Fireball
Victory Road Sample: [CW: VERY VAGUE SUICIDAL…IDEATION?] John Egbert wakes up and he's crying. It's not like he sobbed himself awake, he just...feels wetter than usual, in the cheekbone area, and one ticklish line running down into his left ear. It's sad because he's dead, he thinks, certain in his sleepy haze, and because he's pretty sure he never got to tell Terezi he--he never got to say what he wanted. And now he's woke up dead.
It’s ok, though, it’s kind of a relief. Plus, he saved reality or essential…ness or whatever it was Rose was talking about so his big quest job’s done! Saving Terezi by getting her to come home was probably his reward. Now he gets to just, uh, lie here, dead…with his feet loose out the bottom of, uh, a platform he’s on? Hm. John begins to think he may be less dead than he originally anticipated. Did Terezi bring him to Jane after all? It’s weird, because he had felt so sure that that was it for him but oh well! He guesses he might as well open his eyes.
There’s not a lot in whoever’s room of whosever’s house he’s in. There’s the bed that’s too small, and a couple posters of Pokémon on the walls along with a simplified colourful Pokémon map. That doesn’t strike him as a very Jane room to have. Maybe he’s at Jake’s mansion? That seems more likely, if underdecorated for the kind of person he is pretty sure Jake is. There should be at least 15 more posters, he thinks, and 700% more awful Pokémon figurines. Wherever he is, someone’s brought him one of his spare pairs of glasses and, oddly, put them on him while he slept, because he can see the room without the whole thing dissolving into a colourful blur.
He guesses he should probably get up? Work out whose dumb mansion he’s in, go thank Jane, find or avoid Terezi, depending on how much he’s feeling like a really difficult conversation, haha, actually he won’t think about that, never mind! But he’s really not feeling it. That’s probably fair! He did just fight the Big Big Boss. Nobody would blame him if he just went back to sleep. But he should really check in on Rose, maybe he should get up after all and sleep later?
The door opens and makes the decision for him by not being Jane, or Terezi, or even Jake, but a friendly-looking middle aged woman who pokes her head in, smiles warmly at him and says, “You better get up, sweetie, it’s your big day! All kids leave home eventually!” John manages to make a noise that sounds like “Hweh?” before she leans back out of the room and closes the door. Who? What? He half lifts up to follow her before she leaves, then ends up swinging his legs out of bed. After a moment, he leans his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands.
For a moment John wonders, wildly, if his entire life so far has just been a really long and shitty dream. It would certainly figure!
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John Egbert | Homestuck (Meat Epilogue) | Not Reserved
Name: Leah
E-mail: malea.botor [at] gmail [dot] com
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Current Characters in Victory Road: n/a
Character
Name: John Egbert
Series: Homestuck (+ Epilogues)
Timeline: The very end of his presence in the Meat Epilogue.
Canon Resource Links: There is so much in the wiki, this should be more than enough! LMK if it’s like. Confusing because it’s a fanwiki and people who already understand canon wrote it.
Personality: John is the sort of guy that things happen at rather than one who necessarily has any control over a situation. On the surface, he seems to be the token everyman character. People call him the leader. He loves his friends a bunch. He’s friendly and dorky and a bit clueless. And without a strong purpose or a central conflict or something very specific he’s been told to do, he feels clueless and empty. Throughout the main plot of Homestuck, John just keeps going. He has to beat the game, so he tries his best to level up, following any instructions he’s given by people he identifies as probably more intelligent than he is, which leads to his death on multiple occasions. Without fail, he prioritises helping his friends and progressing in the game over himself. And while this does wear on him, while his own deaths and the death of his father and his friends build up inside him, he keeps them inside. It isn’t even strictly a case of surface-level repression. John pushes down all of the tragedy he experiences to a point where he doesn’t even actually realise he isn’t ok. When it comes out, it tends to come out as anger directed at something frivolous like finding out a favourite candy of his is made by a company he dislikes, or an unkind prank played on him by a friend. John doesn’t let himself feel sad at first because he doesn’t have the time, he keeps being interrupted by circumstance or whatever purpose he sees as more important than himself. But by the time his session fails and he comes across the battle he missed (because he was venting his emotions being mad at a sexist tool in a dumb cape) he’s pretty much numb. He watches one of the only living people left in his session sob as she buries one of his longtime best friends and just looks faintly sad. Rose expects him to throw a fit when he finds out the Big Bad is the head of his least favourite company and he just. Doesn’t. He can’t let himself feel any of his real big emotions anymore. They don’t help the game.
As far as his strong purpose or path, he doesn’t allow himself to stop. In the failed session, Roxy expresses wanting to just sit down, accept they failed, and wait to fade away, and he can’t accept that. He wants to do something. Terezi showing up and giving him a last minute purpose before she dies is probably a big reason for why he ends up with a crush on her. Without a big purpose or a path, he stagnates. After the end of Homestuck, during the Credits, you see John winding down. He’s invested in building up Earth C at first, when that’s still a task that needs to be accomplished, but year by year you watch him draw back from his friends, and isolate himself. By the time the Epilogues start, it’s been ages since he’s properly talked to or seen most of them. He has no purpose, but he still has his block up, preventing him from actually engaging. He doesn’t know how to exist like a normal person, or let his feelings loose now that he has the time. The version of John I’d be bringing in never even tries to change. He stays in his depression funk in his house and then almost immediately follows the first list of instructions he’s given, just to have a meaningful purpose again.
When he has a purpose, John is fiercely loyal to his friends, motivated and caring. He doesn’t always think his words through, and can say some accidentally pretty hurtful or blunt things, but he means well. When he takes the time to think, he’s really thoughtful and sometimes more perceptive about people than anyone gives him credit. He knows that Rose cares a lot about her friends, for instance, despite the thick layer of sarcasm and bullshit she communicates through. Once he’s had time to meet Karkat, he doesn’t take his rudeness seriously either, because he knows he’s a good guy. He definitely seeks out people who can challenge him, for friendships. He wants people who can be an asshole right back, or engage in playful jibes. When he doesn’t like a person, though, because they’re irredeemably mean or an asshole, he gives it right back, and is purposefully shitty to them (instead of accidentally). Overall, though, when mentally well, he’s almost overwhelmingly friendly to people, practically bludgeoning them in the face with it. The fact that he apparently hasn’t spoken to many of his friends for months in the Epilogue is pretty much the biggest indicator that he’s not OK.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Swablu
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: TDM Sample!
Victory Road Sample: [CW: VERY VAGUE SUICIDAL…IDEATION?]
John Egbert wakes up and he's crying. It's not like he sobbed himself awake, he just...feels wetter than usual, in the cheekbone area, and one ticklish line running down into his left ear. It's sad because he's dead, he thinks, certain in his sleepy haze, and because he's pretty sure he never got to tell Terezi he--he never got to say what he wanted. And now he's woke up dead.
It’s ok, though, it’s kind of a relief. Plus, he saved reality or essential…ness or whatever it was Rose was talking about so his big quest job’s done! Saving Terezi by getting her to come home was probably his reward. Now he gets to just, uh, lie here, dead…with his feet loose out the bottom of, uh, a platform he’s on? Hm. John begins to think he may be less dead than he originally anticipated. Did Terezi bring him to Jane after all? It’s weird, because he had felt so sure that that was it for him but oh well! He guesses he might as well open his eyes.
There’s not a lot in whoever’s room of whosever’s house he’s in. There’s the bed that’s too small, and a couple posters of Pokémon on the walls along with a simplified colourful Pokémon map. That doesn’t strike him as a very Jane room to have. Maybe he’s at Jake’s mansion? That seems more likely, if underdecorated for the kind of person he is pretty sure Jake is. There should be at least 15 more posters, he thinks, and 700% more awful Pokémon figurines. Wherever he is, someone’s brought him one of his spare pairs of glasses and, oddly, put them on him while he slept, because he can see the room without the whole thing dissolving into a colourful blur.
He guesses he should probably get up? Work out whose dumb mansion he’s in, go thank Jane, find or avoid Terezi, depending on how much he’s feeling like a really difficult conversation, haha, actually he won’t think about that, never mind! But he’s really not feeling it. That’s probably fair! He did just fight the Big Big Boss. Nobody would blame him if he just went back to sleep. But he should really check in on Rose, maybe he should get up after all and sleep later?
The door opens and makes the decision for him by not being Jane, or Terezi, or even Jake, but a friendly-looking middle aged woman who pokes her head in, smiles warmly at him and says, “You better get up, sweetie, it’s your big day! All kids leave home eventually!” John manages to make a noise that sounds like “Hweh?” before she leans back out of the room and closes the door. Who? What? He half lifts up to follow her before she leaves, then ends up swinging his legs out of bed. After a moment, he leans his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands.
For a moment John wonders, wildly, if his entire life so far has just been a really long and shitty dream. It would certainly figure!
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